re: Still think your browser isn't obsolete?
Wednesday, March 3, 2010 at 8:44 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
Arminius wrote:
|"In order to view this effect, you are required to have WebKit browsers
|like Safari and Chrome ( very sorry for the users of Internet Explorer )"
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|They leave Opera and Firefox out in the cold too catering only to the geek elite.
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No, you missed the entire point. Those browsers left THEMSELVES out in the cold.
Unlike the old Browser Wars days
when the Big 2 would put whatever feature they wanted into their browsers
and you would see pages with a **Best viewed with ______** note,
that page uses regular old CSS3 tags.
The CSS3 standard is published and all browsers are expected to be compliant.
The point is that the other (non-WebKit) browsers
don't implement the CSS3 specification properly--if at all--
so that page is very much like the Acid2 and Acid3 tests
(which also point out deficiencies in standards-compliance in some browsers).
|Reminds me of Quadrophonic sound in the 1970's,
|or mp3PRO in more recent years,
|they were never widely accepted because of their exclusivity.
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Windoze guys have a real problem understanding the concept of standards.[1]
As a rule, when M$ does something there is an existing standard and M$ knows it
but M$ chooses to ignore it--usually with the purpose of trying to break standards.
It really is shameful behavior.
Windoze guys fail to see M$'s attempts to break standards and interoperability
as the negative things they are.
They also fail to blame M$ for its sloth/unwillingness to keep up with the pace.
...or is it simply MS's **inability** to keep up??
Internet Exploder held back the Web for years.
If it wasn't for (Free Software) Mozilla, we'd still have the stagnant Web of 2001.
Now there are even more players in the game
and the oldtimers are going to have to get out their A game or get off the field.
...and don't expect any of them to support Win9x--especially not M$.
The new pacesetters do support Linux
and there are versions of Linux which will run on your Win9x-era box.
I also looked and neither Google Frame nor Chrome is supported under W2k.
Opera had better get on the stick with their CSS3 support
if they want to appease the folks still clinging to pre-XP Windoze; same with Mozilla.
Those appear to be the only options left for those boxes/users.
[1] ...and the biggest problem with Quad Sound
was that each maker had his own way of doing it.[2]
(Remember the recent HD-DVD / Blu-ray squabble? Same deal.)
That is NOT the case with the CSS-rich page.
[2] Most folks also found they wouldn't get much bang for the buck.
(Most folks don't claim to have Golden Ears.)
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